The new IOS video uses whiteboard animation, a form or technique that you cannot not watch. You might remember an older UPS commercial where a hand is diagramming on an easel in hyper speed. I think the reason it is so addictive to the eye is that we all intrinsically love to see progress sped up.

Granted, we might not have the music-cool stunts-exotic locales-bad guys-damsels in distress-cars-gadgets-save the free world thing going that he has, but aside from all that, we’re practically twins - - if he were a real guy.

With new candidates announcing their intentions to run for the presidency almost daily, the drumbeat is growing louder about the importance of ideas. In their announcements, almost all of them talk about the need for new ideas - that our future depends on new ideas – about how our country can’t solve new problems with old ideas. Since the field is about 100, that’s a lot of talk about ideas.